Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [vb past] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come round the side , ’ he said , and I followed him down the tarmac path which was about a yard wide , between the school building and a six-foot wooden fence which isolated the first house in the terrace . |
| 2 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 3 | During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War . |
| 4 | However , his incorrigible nature meant he was unrepentant , and Loki ultimately formed an army to fight THOR and Odin in the Ragnarok , the battle which destroyed the First World . |
| 5 | The mother , as I say , may or may not be the hen which hatched the first brood ; but from her behaviour , which seems slightly less frenetic , I reckon she is someone else . |
| 6 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 7 | AUBREY BOOMER was the last surviving member of the Great Britain and Ireland Ryder Cup team which contested the first match against the Americans in 1927 . |
| 8 | Speed got booked for a heavy tackle which prompted the first use of the chant ‘ the referee 's a German ’ . |
| 9 | Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four . |
| 10 | We survived the Thirties and the war , we sold successfully up to 1987 ( a flourish of porcelain animals and birds sold out 90 per cent before the opening party , immediately after Black Monday in the City ) ; even in 1991 we had secured a collection which made the first half of the year look profitable . |
| 11 | The 34027 Locomotive Group still retain the prestigious opportunity of being able to say that it was their locomotive which took the first train hauled by a steam locomotive into Waterloo after some 25 years . |
| 12 | Ten of the 25 practices in the Oxford Regional Health Authority which entered the first wave of the fundholding scheme were asked to continue collecting referral data for a further year . |
| 13 | Smith was on course to cross ahead of Steinlager 2 's track , the 84 foot ketch which won the first leg having slowed noticeably in the past two days . |
| 14 | Mike Wilson , managing director of Gameplan , the company which organised the first event last September , said he was still searching for ‘ someone to fire the starting pistol ’ with a commitment to guarantee the necessary money . |